[kwgardner]

That's something we're making a huge priority--to give our community leaders a really awesome experience to be able to do everything they need or want to. We've built the whole platform to be as flexible as possible so that communities can exist and have the function the way they need to (or build it using our developer platform if it's not there), and a big part of having healthy communities is allowing the leaders to manage their communities well.

There are definitely private communities! We also allow you to have different usernames in the different communities you participate in to partition your identity if you need to be anonymous, or post anonymously when you need to, all from one account, so you don't have to have throwaways and create different accounts just to be able to manage your privacy and online identity.